Collections & Anthologies

Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....

Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....

Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time...

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....

From misting of the eyes, through soft drizzles on cheek to cascades that would put Niagara falls to shame the event of tears comes in all shapes and sizes.

In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.

These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....

If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....

A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....

For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world....

En neuf siècles de poésies françaises, différentes formes et différents mouvements ont traversé l'histoire littéraire, mais la langue et l'art perdurent...

For students of Middle English, The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over 30 years. With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems....

This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....

'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection The Complete...

Do men need poems? Is the gender of brawn and ‘can-do’ really a candidate for honeyed verse? Obviously yes. Men needs words. They need support, understanding as well as goals, ambition and structure. They need purpose, desire; the need to love and be loved....

This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity....

John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life….

Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence....

This special audio collection features some of Poe's best-known stories....

"100 Best-Loved Poems" is a cherished anthology that brings together some of the most timeless and evocative works of poetry in the English language.

Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep....

In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected his very favourite classic and modern poems about love....

In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout....

With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range...

Os poemas consumiram mais de dez anos até sua feição definitiva, muitos inclusive já haviam aparecido em jornais e receberam de pronto a estima e a admiração da crítica e do público, e foram primeiramente organizados por Théodore de Banville e Charles Asselineau. A obra resultante é tida hoje como algumas das mais importantes páginas já escritas da literatura universal.

Tim Ritter’s The Screamer Down the Hall and Other Tales plunges you into worlds in which the familiar twists into something dark and sinister. A walk in the woods, moving to a new home, and even trying to get a good night’s sleep are all subject to unexpected horrors.

The poets whose work is included in this collection were contemporaries of John Milton and were active during the reigns of Charles I and Charles II, as well as the intervening period of the Commonwealth. While Milton expressed his disdain for these light-hearted lyrics, they display a compelling and ingenious charm which has been rarely equalled.

Adojuru is a map of memory, longing, and becoming-a collection of poems that unravel the journey of self through scattered moments, quiet reckonings, and the slow work of piecing oneself back together. Divided into four sections (Scattered, Searching, Shaping, and Seen) this collection traces the edges of vulnerability and transformation, holding space for those still finding their way. With a voice both lyrical and unflinching, Sandra Okuboyejo writes of longing, self-reclamation, and the fragile, powerful act of being known.

The Third Hour is a collection of poetry with themes in science fiction, fantasy, suspense, and the night. Several poems were originally part of #ProjectMicropoetry project or published in Altered Reality Magazine.